OsteoVet

About

Osteopath & Veterinarian providing manual therapies for people, pets & ponies

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To make a booking...

People appointments are available as follows:

TuesFri:
In the Physio@Bulls Clinic
13 Criterion St, Bulls
Text/phone: 027 3838 728.
Private appointment $55, ACC surcharge $25

Weds/Sat:
In the Feilding Massage and Wellness Centre,
191 North St, Feilding
Private appointment $60, ACC surcharge $30
Text/phone: 027 3838 728.

Animal appointments are available by arrangement, please contact me via Facebook message;
Email: [email protected]; or
Text/phone: 027 3838 728.

OsteoVet provides biomechanical medicine for people (osteopathy) and animals (veterinary acupuncture, trigger point therapy, chiropractic, osteopathy, physiotherapy, saddle fitting and reflocking).

Debbie is a kiwi osteopath and vet who has always had an interest in physical therapies and rehabilitation. After graduating from Massey University vet school in 1998, she travelled to the UK and worked as a locum vet before completing a Master’s degree and then helping to work on the foot and mouth disease outbreak in 2001. Then it was time to come home to a warmer climate and quieter surrounds, and a PhD in animal health surveillance back at Massey. After being treated with acupuncture following a riding accident and seeing the effects of acupuncture and chiropractic on herself and her horses, Deb decided that these were skills she really needed to have. In 2008 she completed the International Veterinary Acupuncture Society’s certification course and a postgraduate diploma in animal chiropractic from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. She has also completed courses in craniosacral therapy, saddle fitting and reflocking and equine rehabilitation. Following even more years of study, Deb has recently graduated as an osteopath (with ACC registration) and can now treat people too. It really is all creatures great and small!

Qualifications and courses

Bachelor of Veterinary Science (Distinction), Massey University
Master of Research (Bioinformatics), Glasgow University
Doctor of Philosophy, Massey University
Postgraduate Diploma in Animal Chiropractic (Distinction), RMIT
Certificate in Veterinary Acupuncture, International Veterinary Acupuncture Society
ASFA Accreditation Course
CranioSacral Therapy 1 & 2, Upledger Institute
Equine CranioSacral Therapy 1 & 2, Upledger Institute
Introductory Saddle Fitting, Society of Master Saddlers UK
Saddle Reflocking, Cumbria School of Saddlery, UK
Equine Athletics and Functional Assessment, Animal Rehab Institute, Florida
Equine Touch Levels 1-3

Registered with the Osteopathic Council of New Zealand http://www.osteopathiccouncil.org.nz/

Registered with the New Zealand Veterinary Council http://www.vetcouncil.org.nz/

Member of Osteopaths New Zealand.